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23 PENNSYLVANIA UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW PENNSYLVANIA UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW PENNSYLVANIA UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW
((u) amended Mar. 24, 1964, Sp.Sess., P.L.53, No.1)
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23 PENNSYLVANIA UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW PENNSYLVANIA UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW PENNSYLVANIA UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW
((u) amended Mar. 24, 1964, Sp.Sess., P.L.53, No.1)
(v) “Unemployment Trust Fund” means the Unemployment Trust Fund
established by the Social Security Act.
((v) amended May 23, 1949, P.L.1738, No.530)
(w) (1) A “Valid Application for Benefits” means an application for benefits
on a form prescribed by the department, which is filed by an
individual, as of a day not included in the benefit year previously
established by such individual, who (1) has been separated from
his work or who during the week commencing on the Sunday
previous to such day has worked less than his full time due to lack
of work and (2) is qualified under the provisions of section four
hundred and one (a), (b) and (d).
(2) An application for benefits filed after the termination of a preceding
benefit year by an individual shall not be considered a Valid
Application for Benefits within the meaning of this subsection,
unless such individual has, subsequent to the beginning of such
preceding benefit year and prior to the filing of such application,
worked and earned wages in “employment” as defined in this act in
an amount equal to or in excess of six (6) times his weekly benefit rate
in effect during such preceding benefit year.
((w) amended June 12, 2012, P.L.577, No.60)
(x) “Wages” means all remuneration, (including the cash value of mediums
of payment other than cash, except that only cash wages shall be used to
determine the coverage of agricultural labor as defined in section 4(l)(3)
(G) and domestic service as defined in section 4(l)(3)(H)), paid by an
employer to an individual with respect to his employment except that the
term “wages” shall not include:
(intro. par. amended June 12, 2012, P.L.577, No.60)
(1) For purposes of paying employer contributions, that part of the
remuneration paid to an individual by each of his employers during
a calendar year that exceeds eight thousand five hundred dollars
($8,500) for calendar year 2013, eight thousand seven hundred
fifty dollars ($8,750) for calendar year 2014, nine thousand dollars
($9,000) for calendar year 2015, nine thousand five hundred dollars